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Navigation & display controls

Use navigation and display controls to help users move between displays, assets, time ranges, and related content without losing operational context.

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Overview

Use navigation and display controls to help users move between displays, assets, time ranges, and related content without losing operational context.

Choose by use case

What you needRecommended symbolWhy
Reusable navigation across several displaysNavigation Menu+Provides hierarchical destinations and can preserve time and asset context.
One focused action that opens a display or URLNavigation Button+Creates a clear destination action and can pass context or query parameters.
Apply a predefined or operator-selected time rangeDateTime Picker+Provides buttons, calendars, or start and end controls for display time.
Switch the AF asset used by asset-relative symbolsAsset Select+Applies the selected asset as display context.
Present approved web content or another displayWebView+Embeds content inline, in a dialog, as tabs, or as a slideshow.

Before publishing display controls

  • Verify every destination, time expression, and asset-context parameter with operator permissions.
  • Confirm that target symbols use asset-relative data sources when they should follow the selected context.
  • Check iframe, HTTPS, authentication, and browser-policy requirements before embedding external content.

Articles in this category

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Navigation Menu+Navigation Menu+ provides reusable links to PI Vision displays, URLs, and asset-context destinations.DateTime Picker+DateTime Picker+ gives operators buttons or date controls for changing the PI Vision display time range.Web View+Web View+ embeds an iframe-compatible website or PI Vision display inside the current display. It can also open content in a dialog or present several pages as tabs or an automatic slideshow.Asset Select+Asset Select+ lets an operator choose an AF asset and apply it as display context.Navigation ButtonNavigation Button opens an external website or another PI Vision display. It can pass the current time range and AF asset context so the destination opens with relevant operational context.